BSc (Hons) Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) Program By University of the West of England |Top Universities

Program overview

Main Subject

Public Health

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The BSc (Hons) Public Health course has been designed to create knowledgeable and skilled public health practitioners, are able to work inclusively with client groups across different settings within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Standards (2018). You'll reflect this knowledge and skill development by demonstrating your achievement of the NMC standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (2004).

The NMC standards include 4 key domains which require a practitioner to search for health needs; stimulate an awareness of health needs; influence policies affecting health and facilitate health enhancing activities in different public health settings. The course delivers knowledge and skills linked to the Public Health Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Our course embraces a family/child centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, focusing on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, networking and developing services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and voluntary workers. This involves the capacity to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.

Program overview

Main Subject

Public Health

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The BSc (Hons) Public Health course has been designed to create knowledgeable and skilled public health practitioners, are able to work inclusively with client groups across different settings within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Standards (2018). You'll reflect this knowledge and skill development by demonstrating your achievement of the NMC standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (2004).

The NMC standards include 4 key domains which require a practitioner to search for health needs; stimulate an awareness of health needs; influence policies affecting health and facilitate health enhancing activities in different public health settings. The course delivers knowledge and skills linked to the Public Health Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Our course embraces a family/child centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, focusing on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, networking and developing services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and voluntary workers. This involves the capacity to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

6+
169+
80+
50+

Entry requirements

  • Active first level registration on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional register.
  • 120 credits at Level 2 or above (if you do not fulfil this criteria but have other relevant/equivalent qualifications or experience, we'll consider your application on an individual basis and we may advise you to access the 'Accelerated Learning for Professionals' module, and when you've successfully completed this, you'll fulfil this entry requirement.
  • To get onto the course, you need to secure a secondment opportunity or a studentship, supported by a fixed term contract from an employer. Your employer will then pay you a salary/cost of living allowance pro-rata for the period that you are on the course, as well as provide you with a practice placement, which is essential for entry onto the course. Organisations will be soon be advertising these opportunities on the NHS Jobs website, so we advise you to check this site regularly.
  • To secure a sponsored or seconded place from an NHS Trust or other employer, all students will need to have successfully completed an in-depth Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and have a satisfactory Occupational Health status.

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